PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12767, 13 April 1910, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr C. E. Stickbury, of the head office staff of the Government Life Insurance Department at Wellington, is relieving the local resident, agent , who is on leave.

A London Press Association -message says that Lady Dudley has -coov ered sufficiently to go out of doors,an J hopes soon to be able to sail for Aus-tralia'to-join her husband, the tfo\-ernor-General.

Mr F. D. Morris, of the Deeds Office, who is under transfer to New Plymouth, was entertained by the law clerks of Nelsoti last night prior to his departure, and was presented with a token of their esteem arid regard.

"A Press Association wire states that Mr D. A. Ewen, son of Mr J. A. Ewen has been elected a director of Messrs Sargood, Son, and Ewen.

■ The "Westminster Gazette," says a caMe from London, congratulates New Zealand on Sir J. Dickson Poy-vd^r s appointment as Governor, and describes him as a politician with r [ king for independent thought, an • as having sshornn m capacity for hard "'• vt as a soldier, a member of Parii \ unz, a County Councillor, and a iau'l« ••» er. The paper adds that his leu-p* I ' »■ ment should appeal to pr-iv-i.-al 1010 nists.

A Sydney cable staies that the Hon. J. A. Millar has completed his investigation of the Queensland railway system, and has gone to Melbourne and Adelaide, to conduct a similar inquiry.